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In the course of performing my job I have the opportunity to play with technology and discover (what I think) are interesting capabilities. In addition I enjoy "tinkering" with my Raspberry PI in my spare time. This Blog aims to capture these things :-)

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Over Christmas I managed to acquire Beta Boards from Quick2Wire . These boards provide full (and safe) access to the GPIO on the Raspberry PI. Given I've played around with the GPIO quite a bit to do simple sensing and switch, I was really interested in trying out the I2C, SPI and Serial capabilities. Given the port extender provides access to 2 banks of extra GPIO pins (as shown below) I thought the best starting point would be to do some simple LED driving but this time via the I2C. In... [More]